The call to preserve the old Bassick grows

BRIDGEPORT — The call to keep at least some of the Bassick High edifice is growing stronger. The city school board at its Monday meeting heard from a steady stream of city residents and self-described history buffs who say it would be criminal to take a wrecking ball to the 1929 portion of the school that was designed by architect Ernest G. Southey on land donated to the city by the family of industrialist Edmund Chase Bassick. “The architecture can not be reproduced whatsoever,” said Jonathan Rodriguez, a city resident. “New is not necessarily good.” said Donna Koolis, a retired Bassick teacher, urging the board to preserve the character of the Bassick facade. “You don’t see Yale tearing down its old buildings.

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